More Questions About the Dubai Assassination

What was a senior Hamas figure doing in a city infamous for Iranian arms trade?

By

Edward Jay Epstein

Updated March 27, 2010 12:01 a.m. ET

James Jesus Angleton, the legendary CIA counterintelligence chief, once discussed a series of suspicious deaths in Germany with me. "Any gang of thugs could murder someone," he said, "but it took an intelligence services to make a murder appear to be a suicide or natural death."

According to this precept, the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai on the evening of Jan. 19, 2010, was almost certainly the work of an intelligence service. When Mabhouh's body was discovered the next day in his room...